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Coping skills and support.
Coping skills:
- Structured decision-making for medium- and big-things
- Time management
- Timeboxing
- Time blocks
- Timers
- Task management
- Have a simple, algorithmic system such as GTD
- Minimize interruptions
- Performance & goals management
- Dispassionate self-evaluation, self-awareness, and seeking professional feedback at work
- Idea management
- Set aside inessential thoughts, ideas, and concerns
- Mind maps, idea repository, and/or notes
- Writing as a tool for thought refinement
- Think like a lawyer: nuanced word choices' and
arrangements' effects on meaning
- Think like an editor: eliminate and rephrase copy until every word is both clear and necessary
- Think like your audience: How is this relevant to them?
What do they need to know?
- Accountability, both self and setting up external forcing
functions
- Sharpen interpersonal effectiveness
- Active listening - Pausing our thoughts and agenda to
express internalization of another's with paraphrasing and
asking questions
- Meeting management - Encourage quiet voices, slow down
louder ones
- Mentoring - In many aspects of modern life, there isn't
enough of this
Support: Work has a secret support group. Prevalence is 20%+.
In my case:
Methylphenidate and mixed amphetamine raised my blood pressure and did more harm than good.
Atomoxetine side-effects were untenable, including sweating, altered consciousness, urinary problems, and anxiety.
One anti-depressant helps in an off-label capacity, however the sexual side-effects were life impairing.
Treatment resistant depression is also present. 3 antidepressants currently. Looking at medical dissociatives, psychedelics, and TMS.
Perhaps:
Ask for a 90 day supply if that's an option.
Consider the benefits vs. costs rather than making a change because something is difficult. Life is difficult. Difficult things will need to be done.